2012 Olympics: Day 7.

Today at the start of one of the running races one of the Saudi Arabian male athletes stared straight down the camera and did this funny little mime as if he was shaving his beard. This was a reference to the fact that in the USA the alleged shooter from "The Foot Hood Mass shooting" has been found in contempt of court for refusing to shave his Muslim beard off - a clear and provocative breach of the US Army grooming standard. This of course was a USA inquiry about this 'superstition' I have that it is bad luck to shave when you're having a good run of form. Well it's either that or a polite way of covering up the fact that there are some days when you really don't want to be holding a razor that close to your throat. Then the Saudi Arabian athlete drew his finger across his throat in the internationally recognised sign language for "I'm going to kill you." It's a sentiment I remember from Libya and means that I think I've said all I have to say tonight about the 13 soldiers killed in Egypt, the five soldiers killed in Cote De Ivorie, the six soldiers killed in Nigeria, the unsuccessful but dead suicide bomber in Kenya, the most recent bombing in Libya, the Cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, the five police officers killed in Iraq or the 45 people killed in the suicide bombing in Yemen. However as for the shooting in the Sikh Temple I would say that we're not really looking at the political class on this one.

Elsewhere in the Olympics Usain Bolt won the 100m metres amid lots of taping, strapping and padding. However it was another successful day for TeamGB. Ben Ainslie won gold in some sort of sailing event, a male gymnast won silver on the pommel horse- apparently his routine was good enough for gold but it was the execution that let him down. A British women whose name I'm not even going to attempt to spell at this time of night won silver in won of the running events. The big story though has been Andy Murray who won gold in the tennis after beating Roger Federer who complained of being 'drained' before the start of the match. Partnered with Laura Robson Murray also managed a silver in the mixed doubles so I think I should explain about Andy Murray. As I think I've mentioned I'm not a big fan of tennis and I may also have mentioned that I'm not a big fan of Murray or indeed the entire population of Scotland. It was around this time that Murray suddenly started getting really good at tennis because the cabal of Monarchies particularly British and Gulf ones who run this pseudo-sport reckoned it would cause me immense stress every time he played and won. Guess what happened between the singles and doubles match today.

Also today TeamGB's Mo Farah was presented with his gold medal from last night's 10,000m. Therefore I should point that there was absolutely nothing wrong with how he won that gold. What I objected to was the way that his win, assisted by his TeamUSA training partner Galen Rupp was spun for political effect. You see although Farah is British through and through he was born in Somalia. While we've all be distracted by Syria Uganda, Kenya, British special forces and UN peacekeepers mainly from India have really been fighting amongst themselves in Somalia. Suddenly somewhere in the middle of this someone has arbitrarily appointed a Somalian government and that government has equally arbitrarily introduced a new constitution. This new constitution brings in a Federal model of government which in Somalia is the first stage in breaking up the country into three parts. Therefore I dispute the assertion that the new constitution is a good thing for Somalia or that is was done with assistance from the USA. Since the invasion of Libya the USA have really just been flailing around in the background - Hillary Clinton's visit to Uganda today being a case in point.

Oh and in the coversations with my mother I've learned that she won't be moving house from the Olympic borough of Straford until at least until the end of the Olympics.

23:40 on 5/8/12.